Daniel taylor



(No Model.)

D. TAYLOR. PILLOW 0R BOLSTER FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA. No. 426,081. Patented Apr. 22, 1890.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DANIEL TAYLOR, OF LIVERPOOL, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

PILLOW OR BOLSTER FOR SAVING LIFE AT SEA.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,081, dated April 22, 1890.

Application filed November 29, 1889. $erial No. 331,962. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL TAYLOR, engineer, of No. 27 Water Street, Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Pillows or Bolsters for Saving Life at Sea; that I have not obtained a patent therefor in any country, and that I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in an improved device which may be used convertibly as a pillow or bolster and as a life-preserver, and is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved device when closed and in condition for use as a pillow or bolster. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof. Fig. 3 is a transverse section on the line III III of Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view showing the application of the device to the human person for use as a lifepreserver. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a modified construction of my improved device. Fig. (3 illustrates the inclosing of the device in a pillow slip.

The said pillow or bolster consists of a series of air-tight cells a a, formed of rubber, coated cloth, or like air-proof flexible material. The cells open one into another by passages l) b, and are provided with blow-up nozzles and valves 0 c, of usual construction. (I (1, represent the outer casing, preferably of water-proof material; and e e, filling of horse hair, wool, or like material. The two parts of the pillow are hinged. together at one end by flexible material f, and at the other end are provided with buckles and straps g.

h are should enstraps.

Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing a lifesaving pillow or bolster, in which both ends of the two halves are connected by elastic webbing I, so that the apparatus may be slipped into position around the body without having to make any connection.

Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a pillow or bolster under niyinvention, inclosed in a pillow-slip j.

I clain1- 1. As a life-saving pillow or bolster, the combination of two buoyant flexible sections, which are connected and fit together laterally, forlnin a two-ply pillow or bolster, and which are separable laterally to form a body-encircling life-preserver, substantially as and for the purposes described.

2. As a lifesaving pillow or bolster, the combination of two buoyant hollow flexible sections having air-cells and filling material, said sections being connected at the ends and fitting together laterally, forming a two-ply pillow or bolster, and being separable laterally to form a body-encircling life-preserver, substantially as and for the purposes described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 8th day of November, A. D. 1889.

DANIEL TAYLOR.

'Witnesses:

.I. I. KING, W. B. JoHNsoN. 

